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(Dallas News) News Motorcycle officer killed attempting to bail from Clinton's motorcade to join Obama's   (dallasnews.com) divider line 48
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Shaggy_C 2008-02-22 12:09:53 PM  
Lame, subby, lame.

 
jebusfreak [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:09:57 PM  
more proof her campaign is crashing

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:10:00 PM  
Arkancide

 
schnarff [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:11:23 PM  
I bow before subby's superior headline-writing skills...I lol'd at this one, which got redlit over my headline.

 
TheNintendoKid 2008-02-22 12:11:40 PM  
Haha.... Bush helicopter pilot

 
Wombatzu 2008-02-22 12:11:49 PM  
too soon

 
RadioAaron 2008-02-22 12:12:23 PM  
So it goes.

 
low_dazzle 2008-02-22 12:12:53 PM  
i think we now know who penned the "xerox" line

 
Sulfus 2008-02-22 12:15:24 PM  
I knew I should've submitted that link instead of posting it in another thread.

Oh well.

 
I_Approve_Of_This_Message 2008-02-22 12:16:09 PM  
9/11

 
jj325 [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:17:51 PM  
How many more must die before she gives up.

 
peachpicker [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:17:58 PM  
img263.imageshack.us

Cutest. Motorcade. EVAR.

 
Rann Xerox 2008-02-22 12:20:13 PM  
Check for evidence at the grassy knoll.

/Hell awaits me.

 
I Said [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:21:22 PM  
I'm sorry to hear that.

 
Sultan Of Herf 2008-02-22 12:23:24 PM  
She pushed him, so now she can play some more sympathy BS. This farking harpy needs to be burned at the stake, stat.

 
TheNewJesus 2008-02-22 12:26:38 PM  
Yea I don't know, dead cop jokes before the guy is even identified?

Not a cop fan, but, eh. Rough.

/FREE HAM

 
Sadida 2008-02-22 12:28:39 PM  
Wow she is right up there with Teddy K now!

 
Headso 2008-02-22 12:30:34 PM  
dallas and motorcades don't mix, use a helicopter...

 
Wombatzu 2008-02-22 12:32:14 PM  
so is there not going to be a thread about the Secret Service ordering Dallas Police to stop doing weapons searches before an Obama speech?

Dallas.

 
KnightsCross 2008-02-22 12:32:33 PM  
schnarff: I bow before subby's superior headline-writing skills...I lol'd at this one, which got redlit over my headline.

What was yours?

 
Edsel 2008-02-22 12:36:05 PM  
Wombatzu: so is there not going to be a thread about the Secret Service ordering Dallas Police to stop doing weapons searches before an Obama speech?

I'm no conspiracy theorist but that was fishy as all hell.

 
Sasquach 2008-02-22 12:38:18 PM  
Sultan Of Herf: She pushed him, so now she can play some more sympathy BS. This farking harpy needs to be burned at the stake steak, stat.

/sorry, pet peeve
//I really am sorry

 
Joesama 2008-02-22 12:39:34 PM  
Tasteless headline, subby. But I won't hold that against you.
This is what Fark is all about, so I'll throw in my 2 cents:
Hopefully no one sees this event as an opportunity.
I actually feel sorry for the officer this time.

 
KnightsCross 2008-02-22 12:40:01 PM  
Here is mine that got redlit

i225.photobucket.com

BTW how can someone submit something with the exact same source?

 
Sadida 2008-02-22 12:46:31 PM  
KnightsCross: Here is mine that got redlit



BTW how can someone submit something with the exact same source?


From what i hear, your link gets voted on by the TotalFark population. So if you arent liked or they have one better you are screwed.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:49:00 PM  
pillar of the community, indeed.

 
KnightsCross 2008-02-22 12:49:35 PM  
How democratic of them, or maybe they just dont like me, oh well

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:54:11 PM  
KnightsCross: How democratic of them, or maybe they just dont like me, oh well

Sadida doesn't exactly know what he's talking about. Sometimes, a slew of votes will get an undecided or redlit article greenlit, but for the most part, it's the Powers of Fark who make that call.

 
RadioAaron 2008-02-22 12:56:54 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: the Powers of Fark

are not real people.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 12:58:48 PM  
RadioAaron: are not real people.

Aliens?

 
Theaetetus 2008-02-22 01:08:19 PM  
TheNewJesus: Yea I don't know, dead cop jokes before the guy is even identified?

Not a cop fan, but, eh. Rough.


www.laobserved.com
It's easier to make jokes about something anonymous than something personal.

/but he was just 3 days from retirement! Damn you, Mendoza!

 
KernLead 2008-02-22 01:09:12 PM  
From what the Internet tells me, President Bush lost two motorcycle cops: one in Hawaii (that one I remember) and one in New Mexico.

 
NoobieDoobieDo 2008-02-22 01:10:10 PM  
I thought these guys were suppose to be like, good at what they did.

"A Dallas police officer died Friday when his motorcycle struck a curb on the Houston Street viaduct as he was escorting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to a rally in Oak Cliff."

"There are no routine jobs in this business," said Lt. Hale. "It is a dangerous job."

No. Its. Not.

I get so tired of this, "it's a dangerous job" bit. Some of us do have almanacs you know.

I've ridden bikes, know folks who ride and all that jazz. WTF are you doing hitting curbs at that speed?

Fail.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 01:15:48 PM  
KernLead: From what the Internet tells me, President Bush lost two motorcycle cops: one in Hawaii (that one I remember) and one in New Mexico.

I'm sure he lost quite a few more in his drinking days...

 
CalvinMorallis 2008-02-22 01:16:50 PM  
Joesama: Tasteless headline, subby. But I won't hold that against you.
This is what Fark is all about, so I'll throw in my 2 cents:
Hopefully no one sees this event as an opportunity.
I actually feel sorry for the officer this time.


Wow. My --exact-- thoughts.

 
Bill Frist 2008-02-22 01:30:52 PM  
This shiat is a little too soon... but I must admit this was the funniest of the bad taste motorcycle jokes.

 
Unright 2008-02-22 01:45:43 PM  
Sadida: KnightsCross: Here is mine that got redlit

BTW how can someone submit something with the exact same source?

From what i hear, your link gets voted on by the TotalFark UltraFark population. So if you arent liked or they have one better you are screwed.


Fixed for greater accuracy.

 
Logweasel 2008-02-22 01:49:10 PM  
NoobieDoobieDo: I've ridden bikes, know folks who ride and all that jazz. WTF are you doing hitting curbs at that speed?

There was a motorcycle cop killed in one of Ted Kennedy's motorcades about 35 years ago. I think he also hit a curb. His son is trying to get a monument built to honor his father's service. I understand the sentiment, but... there have been plenty of cops, firefighters and soldiers killed in this area since then. Not one has a monument.

 
vonzales 2008-02-22 02:04:33 PM  
"A Dallas police officer died Friday when his motorcycle struck a curb on the Houston Street viaduct as he was escorting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to a rally in Oak Cliff."

That Houston St Viaduct is kind of like the log ride at six flags.
The lanes are narrow. Probably hard to ride side by side Ponch and John style.

 
KikiD 2008-02-22 02:11:40 PM  
George W is up by one, then. There have been TWO police officers killed while escorting his motorcade.

/he needs to farking stay home
//there's a video out there of him dancing like a monkey in Liberia
///total embarassment, that guy

 
huchipapa [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 02:54:10 PM  
I be hatin' on the HRC, but I must admit she followed through (cancelled rally, called widow and police chief, went to hospital to visit with officer's family) quite well.

At least it was more than she did with Vince Foster's family......

 
hodaka53 2008-02-22 03:41:55 PM  
These guys are required to speed from one intersection, ramp, ect. to the next to keep ANY motorcade moving at a speed safe from any attack, accident, ect. It IS a dangerous assignment.
BTW, it was shorter and smaller then when VP came to town to talk up the war on our local right wing nut radio show a few months back. The Dallas taxpayers picked up the bill on that one, about 30 big....

 
dittybopper [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-02-22 04:06:49 PM  
Moral of the story:

Avoid motorcades in Dallas.

 
Chester the Snake 2008-02-22 06:01:33 PM  
You Obama supporters are a classy bunch.

 
Sandwyrm 2008-02-22 06:33:39 PM  
Chester the Snake: You Obama supporters are a classy bunch.

You don't come to Fark for tasteful, sensible and high class humor. This isn't indicative of Obama supporters, rather it typifies normal Farker responses.

You... you should know this.

 
ekdikeo4 2008-02-22 07:19:02 PM  
WTF is with all the links requiring registration these days?

 
legion_of_doo 2008-02-22 07:21:25 PM  
Sandwyrm: This isn't indicative of Obama supporters, rather it typifies normal Farker responses.

Just imagine what the response would be if this officer fell as part of the Obama motorcade.

The Obamatons would erect a giant roadside shrine to the first martyr for the audacious & courageous agent of change.

/Barack Akbar!

 
DrRatchet [TotalFark] 2008-02-23 01:10:56 AM  
What I want to know is, why/how did he lose his helmet? That's never supposed to happen, ever. Are those duck-bill visors permanently attached? That would be a bad idea, as well as a violation of DOT FMVSS 218 regs.

I suppose 70 head-on into a concrete abutment will do that to you.

/Scary fact: The new Harleys have less high-speed cornering capability than the now-discontinued Kawasakis.

 
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